From which poem are these lines taken? 'Once more the storm is howling, and half hid / Under this cradle-hood and coverlid / My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle / But Gregory's wood and one bare hill…'

1. A'The Second Coming'
2. B'The Cold Heaven'
3. C'A Prayer for My Daughter'
4. D'Among School Children'

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Correct answer: C. 'A Prayer for My Daughter'

Explanation

These are the opening lines of Yeats's 'A Prayer for My Daughter' (1919), written at Thoor Ballylee for his infant daughter Anne; 'Gregory's wood' is Lady Gregory's Coole estate.